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Based on their own treatises, the tīrthikas postulate such things as the person and so on. Seeing none of these to be the agent, the Buddha said that mind alone is the creator of the world. Just as the word buddha refers to “one who has blossomed into suchness,” so the sutras speak of “mind only” because the mind is primary in the world. The meaning of such sutras is not that matter has no existence. For if the Buddha knew the world to be mind only and, on that basis, did engage in the rejection of matter, why then would the Great One proclaim in the same sutra that the mind was born from delusion and karma? It is the mind that constructed the vast diversity of both the domain of sentient beings and their universe as well. The Buddha said that all beings are born of karma; there is no karma without the mind. Even though matter does exist, it has no status of a creator like the mind, so what is being denied is a creator other than the mind; it is not that matter is being negated. While remaining within the truth of the everyday world, all five aggregates known to the world do exist. When we speak of the arising of the gnosis of suchness, then, for the yogi, these five aggregates will be no more. So if there is no matter, do not hold that there is mind, and if there is mind, do not hold that there is no matter. In the wisdom sutras the Buddha rejects them equally, but in the Abhidharma he speaks of the existence of both. Even after you have undone the structure of the two truths, the substantial reality you assert remains unproven. Thus you should know that from their very outset, phenomena are unborn in reality but born in terms of the world.

Chandrakirti, Entering the Middle Way 6:86-93

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[E]very body responds to all that happens in the universe, so that he who saw all could read in each one what is happening everywhere, and even what has happened and what will happen. He can discover in the present what is distant both as regards space and as regards time; "all things conspire," as Hippocrates said. A soul can, however, read in itself only what is there represented distinctly. It cannot all at once open up all its folds, because they extend to infinity. Thus although each created monad represents the whole universe, it represents more distinctly the body which specially pertains to it and of which it constitutes the entelechy. And as this body expresses all the universe through the interconnection of all matter in the plenum, the soul also represents the whole universe in representing this body, which belongs to it in a particular way.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Monadology (sec. 61-2)

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Obá, La Vem Ela, Jorge Ben Jor.

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"Subhuti, if a person amasses enough of the seven jewels to fill countless worlds and gives them away in charity, and if a good man or good woman with the bodhisattva resolve takes as few as a four-line verse of this sutra, recites, remembers, follows, and expounds it to others, the latter’s merit would far exceed that of the former. How should one teach it to others? Without attachment, abiding in stillness and suchness. Why? All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow, like dew or a flash of lightning; thus we shall perceive them." With this the Buddha concluded the sutra.

The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra (trans. Chung Tai Translation Committee)

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“Subhuti, do not think that the Tathagata holds the thought ‘I have something to teach.’ Do not even think such a thing. Why not? Whoever says that the Tathagata has a Dharma to teach slanders the Buddha, because he does not understand my teaching. Subhuti, in teaching the Dharma there is no Dharma to teach. This is called teaching the Dharma.” […] Subhuti said to the Buddha: “World Honored One, when the Buddha attained unsurpassed complete enlightenment, was nothing actually attained?” The Buddha said, “So it is, Subhuti, so it is. As to unsurpassed complete enlightenment, I have not attained the slightest thing. This is why it is called unsurpassed complete enlightenment.”

The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra (trans. Chung Tai Translation Committee)

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Debbie Harry of Blondie and Joan Jett of the Runaways backstage at a show in the ‘70s.

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untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends.. (2003) dir. JAYCE SALLOUM

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the artist Salman Toor - 📸 by Stefan Ruiz

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"A world of grief and pain Flowers bloom Even then"

Kobayashi Issa

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22 years since his death

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The essence of embodiment is not in repudiation, but in living the instincts fully, while at the same time harnessing their primordial raw energies to promote increasingly subtle qualities of experience. In the book of Job it is said, "For in my flesh I shall see God."

Peter Levine, In an Unspoken Voice

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Nostalghia (1983), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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Floating Clouds (1955), dir. Mikio Naruse

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Satoshi Kon - Perfect Blue (1997)

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Happy 64th, Forest Whitaker.

With Jim Jarmusch during the making of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

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Bill Gunn, July 15, 1934 – April 5, 1989.

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Jacques Derrida, July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004.

With Pascale Ogier in Ken McMullen's Ghost Dance (1983).